Children and Childhood in American Religions

by Browning, Don S.; Miller-McLemore, Bonnie J.

• ISBN13: 9780813544816
• ISBN10: 0813544815
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-30
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

Whether First Communion or bar mitzvah, religious traditions play a central role in the lives of many American children. In this collection of essays, leading scholars reveal for the first time how various religions interpret, reconstruct, and mediate their traditions to help guide children and their parents in navigating the opportunities and challenges of American life. This book explores, among other issues:

Author Biography

Don S. Browning is a professor emeritus at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Christian Ethics and Moral Psychologies, coeditor of American Religions and the Family: How Faith Traditions Cope with Modernization and Democracy, and coeditor of Children and Childhood in World Religions: Primary Sources and Texts (Rutgers University Press). Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore is a professor of pastoral theology and counseling at the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Let the Children Come: Reimagining Childhood from a Christian Perspective and In the Midst of Chaos: Caring for Children as Spiritual Practice.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction: Children and Childhood in American Religions	p. 1
Mainline Protestants and Children	p. 25
Conservative Protestants on Children and Parenting	p. 42
The Status of Children within the Roman Catholic Church	p. 56
Judaism and Children in the United States	p. 71
The Black Church and Children	p. 85
Latter-day Saint Children and Youth in America	p. 102
Native American Children and Religion	p. 119
Children in American Islam	p. 133
Hindu Children in the United States	p. 148
Buddhism and Children in North America	p. 165
Asian American Confucianism and Children	p. 180
Immigrant Parochial Schools: Religion, Morality, Citizenship	p. 194
The Law's Influence over Children's Religious Development	p. 210
Contributors	p. 223
Index	p. 227
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